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"First and foremost, all is not well with Mary Grace. She fell sick in the night and started coughing persistantly. She was coughing and vomiting blood full of blood clots and some other black substances. The girls woke me up at around 2 am and I had to wake up Mr. Wekesa Felix and Mr. Barasa. We called pastor on phone who woke up and gave us instructions to call a mobile number of one of the tax drivers from within. We rushed her to Mbagathi District hospital in which she did not receive any medication because we had no money at that time. Pastor came very early in the morning and has given out money for her treatment. She is hospitalised at the moment. Doctors say she has TB that has never been healed and ulcers. Chest X-rays and stomach X-rays will be able to show the extend of the damage. She seriously needs your prayers.

As she vomited on the floor in the night, it was so pathetic that her fellow girls refused to clean up the mess because they feared that TB is contagious. Honestly, no teacher was willing to clean up the mess which made the school director and Madam Jacklyne to wear gloves and put on masks to clean up the mess. What a shame to us!!! Pastor had to send away all the girls and both started cleaning the dormitory."
 

"Mary Grace has been discharged this evening. Her total cost for the treatment of the TB and pneumonia has come to ksh 88,650. The charges per bed has been ksh 1,800 per day. Her chest had rotten so bad according to the X-rays and other tests that were done. She has been given drugs that will last for 8 months and she has to take them on daily basis without missing even once. She will be having appointments once per month for the next 8 months. The doctor requires that Mary Grace takes two packets of milk every day, one in the morning and the other one in the evening for the next two months. Each packet of milk is ksh 35.She also has been recommended to eat fruits in plenty every week. We have given Mary Grace one of the houses in the back. Am able to see the drastic physical improvement that Mary Grace has. On behalf of Mary Grace, I say thank you so much Bill for the money and to all who offered prayers for Mary Grace. I also have taken the girls and some boys for the TB tests and found that one of our boys Charlo has TB. There was a general observation that some of the boarders were developing breathing complications. The tests for all the boarders that had breathing complications costs ksh 45,600. The doctor tested 48 boarders only and then I ran out of the money."
 

In '06 Pastor John found Charlo in the slum begging for food.  His parents had died and he was homeless so he was brought to Bright Star.  Since he'd missed so much school, he had to repeat 8th grade.  He is very bright and is successful in his classes.  Charlo is polite and soft-spoken.  His parents would be proud of him. When I visited the school later that year, Charlo told me his chest hurt so I took him to the clinic in the slum.  He was given antibiotics and cough meds.  Now I suspect he was suffering from TB then. Charlo's sponsors are graciously paying for his medical care.

Catherine has had a tough last few months with malaria and swelling of her legs.  She's now showing signs of improvement and can get back to enjoying her life at Bright Star. Her sponsors are helping to pay for her medical care.